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The Southwestern Anthropological Association (SWAA) is a regional association of academic and applied anthropologists and students in the southwestern states of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. Our members do research in all areas of the world and include social-cultural anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, and applied anthropologists in all fields. Our goals are to encourage innovative research and to promote public interest in all varieties of anthropological inquiry.

President's Message

I want to start my first President’s Message with a thank you to everyone who made the 89th Annual Conference of the Southwestern Anthropological Association (SWAA) in Fresno possible. Simply put, the conference would not have been a success without the creative input of the Executive Board and the volunteer efforts of students and other participants.